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A centuries old curse haunts a family summer house. When a young woman's husband inherits the house and is involved in a near-fatal accident, she realizes both he and her unborn son are at g... Read allA centuries old curse haunts a family summer house. When a young woman's husband inherits the house and is involved in a near-fatal accident, she realizes both he and her unborn son are at great risk, unless she can break the curse.A centuries old curse haunts a family summer house. When a young woman's husband inherits the house and is involved in a near-fatal accident, she realizes both he and her unborn son are at great risk, unless she can break the curse.
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- TriviaThis is loosely based on the false legend of the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana. In that falsehood, Mr. Woodruff, the plantation owner, owned slaves, one who was named Chole. He was supposedly brutal to her, and she took her revenge. None of that story is true, and a good man's name was sullied. But this movie is based on that legend, even fashioning the ghost to look like a supposed ghost photograph of Chloe.
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If we all had to pay for the sins of our ancestors, the price would be too high, for people of EVERY COLOR
SECRETS OF THE SUMMER HOUSE\SUMMER HOUSE 2008
BASIC PLOT: An artist, Nikki Wickersham, (Lindsay Price) is recently married, to George Wickersham IV (David Haydn-Jones). He gives her a brooch, a family heirloom, to celebrate her first art show. The next day, George's father dies. The couple goes to Maine for the funeral, and to put his ancestral home up for sale. George's whole attitude about his father, the beautiful house and the island, is perplexing. Nikki learns it's because there's supposed to be a curse on all the Wickersham men. Sure enough, George ends up in a coma, because he decides not to sell the house.
Someone actually went out, and wrote a "ghost story" (with very few ghosts), about present day people getting retribution, because their ancestors owned slaves. FULL STOP!
I am so sick of seeing, reading, and watching this kind of detritus! Hey millennials, you are not smarter than your ancestors! Stop inflicting cancel culture on the rest of us! I'm tired of seeing actors, who's talent I admire, come out and say stupid things because they are afraid (I'm talking to you Viggo Mortenson & Ryan Reynolds).
But back to this rubbish, I swear it was written by a twelve year old. I am the first one to be generous with made-for-tv movies (see my reviews & ratings), but this is beyond the pale. If you are a grown up, or if you're a person that thinks all this white privilege penance, and cancel culture SHOULD BE STOPPED, then definitely, give this a pass.
WHAT WORKS: *This is a nice atmospheric, and the house is a perfect setting.
WHAT DOESN'T WORK: *One minute, Nikki is terrified of the house, the next, she's determined to stay. It would have been more believable if she was swept up in the beauty of the place from the start.
*Nikki actually talks to the tombstone of one of her husband's ancestors, "What is this legacy of secrets that has my husband so troubled Jedidiah?" Are you kidding me? That line is beyond hackneyed.
*This is supposed to be a ghost story, yet the ghost doesn't show up until the movie is more than half over. When you do see the ghost, it is there for 2 seconds and we don't see it again until the end
*This plot is beyond insipid and banal. At our house, we describe this as a 'Barbie storyline'. This means that I used to come up with better plotlines for my Barbies. (The anthropologist is a ghost expert too!)
*I find it offensive that the Asian wife, has to redeem her white husband's non-transgressions, so her half white baby won't be born under the curse.
TRIVIA: *This movie is loosely based on the false legend of the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana. In that fabrication, the plantation owner, Mr. Woodruff, owned slaves, one of whom was named Chloe. He was supposedly brutal to them (not true, Judge Woodruff never owned slaves), and Chloe took her revenge. The moviemakers even fashioned the ghost to look like a supposed ghost photograph of Chloe, purportedly taken at the plantation.
TO RECOMMEND, OR NOT TO RECOMMEND, THAT IS THE QUESTION: As Made-For-TV movies go, this leaves a lot to be desired. There are so many quality Made-For-TV movies, and vintage Movies-of-the-Week out there, there's no need to waste your time on this one.
CLOSING NOTES: *This is a Made-For-TV movie, please keep that in mind before you watch\rate it. TV movies have a much lower budget, and so your expectations should be adjusted.
*I have no connection to the film, or production in ANY way. I am just an honest viewer, who wishes for more straight forward reviews. Hope I helped you out.
BASIC PLOT: An artist, Nikki Wickersham, (Lindsay Price) is recently married, to George Wickersham IV (David Haydn-Jones). He gives her a brooch, a family heirloom, to celebrate her first art show. The next day, George's father dies. The couple goes to Maine for the funeral, and to put his ancestral home up for sale. George's whole attitude about his father, the beautiful house and the island, is perplexing. Nikki learns it's because there's supposed to be a curse on all the Wickersham men. Sure enough, George ends up in a coma, because he decides not to sell the house.
Someone actually went out, and wrote a "ghost story" (with very few ghosts), about present day people getting retribution, because their ancestors owned slaves. FULL STOP!
I am so sick of seeing, reading, and watching this kind of detritus! Hey millennials, you are not smarter than your ancestors! Stop inflicting cancel culture on the rest of us! I'm tired of seeing actors, who's talent I admire, come out and say stupid things because they are afraid (I'm talking to you Viggo Mortenson & Ryan Reynolds).
But back to this rubbish, I swear it was written by a twelve year old. I am the first one to be generous with made-for-tv movies (see my reviews & ratings), but this is beyond the pale. If you are a grown up, or if you're a person that thinks all this white privilege penance, and cancel culture SHOULD BE STOPPED, then definitely, give this a pass.
WHAT WORKS: *This is a nice atmospheric, and the house is a perfect setting.
WHAT DOESN'T WORK: *One minute, Nikki is terrified of the house, the next, she's determined to stay. It would have been more believable if she was swept up in the beauty of the place from the start.
*Nikki actually talks to the tombstone of one of her husband's ancestors, "What is this legacy of secrets that has my husband so troubled Jedidiah?" Are you kidding me? That line is beyond hackneyed.
*This is supposed to be a ghost story, yet the ghost doesn't show up until the movie is more than half over. When you do see the ghost, it is there for 2 seconds and we don't see it again until the end
*This plot is beyond insipid and banal. At our house, we describe this as a 'Barbie storyline'. This means that I used to come up with better plotlines for my Barbies. (The anthropologist is a ghost expert too!)
*I find it offensive that the Asian wife, has to redeem her white husband's non-transgressions, so her half white baby won't be born under the curse.
TRIVIA: *This movie is loosely based on the false legend of the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana. In that fabrication, the plantation owner, Mr. Woodruff, owned slaves, one of whom was named Chloe. He was supposedly brutal to them (not true, Judge Woodruff never owned slaves), and Chloe took her revenge. The moviemakers even fashioned the ghost to look like a supposed ghost photograph of Chloe, purportedly taken at the plantation.
TO RECOMMEND, OR NOT TO RECOMMEND, THAT IS THE QUESTION: As Made-For-TV movies go, this leaves a lot to be desired. There are so many quality Made-For-TV movies, and vintage Movies-of-the-Week out there, there's no need to waste your time on this one.
CLOSING NOTES: *This is a Made-For-TV movie, please keep that in mind before you watch\rate it. TV movies have a much lower budget, and so your expectations should be adjusted.
*I have no connection to the film, or production in ANY way. I am just an honest viewer, who wishes for more straight forward reviews. Hope I helped you out.
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